Bachelor's · Lynchburg, Virginia
Is Natural Resources Conservation and Research at University of Lynchburg worth it?
Low confidence Low confidence: fewer than 40 graduates behind the earnings figures.
The verdict · all families, in-state, half paid with loans
Pays back slowly: graduates typically recover the cost in about 7.7 years.
- Earnings 1 year after graduating
- Not enough graduates to report
- Treasury AY2020-21, AY2021-22 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Earnings 4 years after graduating
- $60,025
- Treasury AY2017-2018, AY2018-2019 pooled earnings cohort measured in CY2022, CY2023, inflation adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Typical federal debt at graduation
- Not enough borrowers to report
- NSLDS pooled AY2022-23, AY2023-24 cohort
- Net cost to graduate, all families
- $115k (likely $115k – $129k)
- AcadYr 2024-25, reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
- Earnings bump, year 4
- $20k a year vs high-school graduates aged 25–34 in VA
- 2023 ACS 5-year pooled, adjusted to 2024 dollars
- Payback
- 7.7 years (likely 4.5–16.0)
- Bump vs net cost plus loan interest
- 10-year net return
- −$105k (likely −$228k – $49k)
- Today's dollars
- 20-year net return
- $138k (likely −$121k – $460k)
- Today's dollars
- Odds of finishing (school-wide)
- 59%
- Fall 2019 or AcadYr 2019-20 cohort (differs by institutional calendar), reported in IPEDS DCY2025-26
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Natural Resources Conservation and Research at other schools in Virginia
- George Mason University$60,874
- Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University$59,868
- University of Virginia-Main Campus$58,475
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- Randolph-Macon College$54,186
- Virginia Commonwealth University$50,217
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